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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Sean C. Landis</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>5 Waterview Heights Rd.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Ithaca, NY 14850 </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>607-272-6327 ext. 237 (W) 607-277-7443 (H)</FONT>
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<TT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">landis@clarityconnect.com</FONT></TT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=4>Objective</FONT></B>
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<I><FONT SIZE=1>Be a technical contributor developing object oriented,
distributed software. I am also very interested in computer graphics,
image databases, and image processing.</FONT></I>
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<B><FONT SIZE=4>Education</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Graduate May 1997</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Cornell University</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Ithaca, NY</FONT></B></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Masters of Engineering, Computer Science, 3.8 GPA</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>December 1990</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>University of Utah</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Salt Lake City, Utah</FONT></B></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.2 GPA in
major</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=4>Professional experience</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>March 1996 - Date</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Isis Distributed Systems, Inc.</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Ithaca, NY</FONT></B></I>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>Software Engineer IV</FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Orbix+Isis team project leader. Responsible for key
technical contributions, planning, resource and vendor management,
release management, and performance evaluations.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>July 1994 - Feb. 1996</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Isis Distributed Systems, Inc.</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Ithaca, NY</FONT></B></I>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>Software Engineer III</FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>As member of  Orbix+Isis development team, participated
in all facets of development for two releases. Responsible for
port to Windows NT. Responsible for documentation and training.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>June 1992 - June 1994</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Unisys Corporation</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Salt Lake City, Utah</FONT></B></I>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>Senior Software Engineer</FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Lead engineer for <I>DM/Software Manager</I>, a distributed
software management application. Responsible for analysis, design,
implementation, and documentation. Assisted planning and staffing.
Representative to POSIX 1387.2, Software Administration.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>April 1989 - June 1992</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Unisys Corporation</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Salt Lake City, Utah</FONT></B></I>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>Software Engineer</FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Developed <I>The Unisys UNIX Self-supporting System</I>,
a customizable monitoring and analysis tool. Performed all phases
of the product life-cycle including training. Developed and taught
a <I>UNIX Performance Tuning Seminar</I>.</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>1989, 1991 Short-term Achievement Award 1991 Group
Achievement Award</FONT></B>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>1991 Unit Achievement Award   1991 Corporate Achievement
Award</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Aug. 1988 - April 1989</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Unisys Corporation</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Salt Lake City, Utah</FONT></B></I>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>Associate Software Engineer</FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Customer support for UNIX SVR3.2 on a master/slave
multiprocessor machine. Resolved customer problems in-plant and
on-site. Created a UNIX support tools package and training class
for customer support engineers.</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>1989 Short-term Achievement Award</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Oct. 1987 - March 1988</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Olympus Software</FONT></B>
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<I><B><FONT SIZE=2>Salt Lake City, Utah</FONT></B></I>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>Programmer/Analyst</FONT></I>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Responsibilities included porting UltraCalc spreadsheet
to various UNIX platforms, release management, and completing
a graphing package.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Summers 1983 - 1987</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=2>Various</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Student cooperative work.</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=4>Publications</FONT></B>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>CORBA with fault tolerance</FONT></I><FONT SIZE=2>,
with Ruth Stento, in <I>Object Magazine</I>, Nov.-Dec. 1995.</FONT>
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<I><FONT SIZE=2>Building Reliable Distributed  Systems with CORBA</FONT></I><FONT SIZE=2>,
with Silvano Maffeis, to be printed in <I>Theory and Practice
of Object Systems.</I></FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=4>Summary of skills</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>CORBA, Orbix, Object-Oriented Development, C++, C,
UNIX development tools, WIN32 Programming, Visual C++ and MFC,
Software Engineering, Project Management, Perl, ClearCase, CVS,
Microsoft Office, FrameMaker, TCP/IP, HTML, Graphics Programming,
Image Processing, Machine Vision.</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=4>Current projects</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Masters Project</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>A PC-based 3D graphics rendering system.  Wireframe
and solid display modes, Phong shading, object oriented design,
vertex/polygon/surface/object data model. MSVC++ 4.0 on Windows
95.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>CS 718 Topics in Computer Graphics</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>A content-based image retrieval system for interior
design. Database of wallpaper patterns retrievable by color histogram
or by pattern. Image feature extraction, analysis, and indexing.
Object oriented design allowed for easy extensibility.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>CS 664 Machine Perception</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Use computer vision techniques to measure the quality
of children's coloring book artwork. The system evaluates sample
colorings and draws conclusions about the nature of the author's
work.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>CS 537 Advanced Databases</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Explore indexing methods for image databases. Utilize
image features to create (possibly multidimensional) indexing
structures. This project is planned for the current semester.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>See </FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/sean.html</FONT><FONT SIZE=2>
for more information.</FONT>
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<B><FONT SIZE=4>References</FONT></B>
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<FONT SIZE=2>References and salary history available upon request.
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